SAN and Fabric Resiliency Best Practices for IBM b-type Products

Book description

This IBM® Redpaper® publication describes best practices for deploying and using advanced Broadcom Fabric Operating System (FOS) features to identify, monitor, and protect Fibre Channel (FC) SANs from problematic devices and media behavior.
Note that this paper primarily focuses on the FOS command options and features that are available since version 8.2 with some coverage of new features that were introduced in 9.0.
This paper covers the following recent changes:


  • SANnav
  • Fabric Performance Impact Notification

Product information

  • Title: SAN and Fabric Resiliency Best Practices for IBM b-type Products
  • Author(s): Ian MacQuarrie, Jim Blue, David Lutz, David Green, Gavin O'Reilly
  • Release date: January 2022
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738460253